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In real life, serial killers tend to be non-descript. They can be charming and handsome, like Ted Bundy. Or friendly and jolly, like John Wayne Gacy. Or a bland Midwesterner, like Ed Gein. What they don’t tend to look like is the title character in Gavin Polone’s horror film Psycho Killer. As played by former…
The Federal Communications Commission is asking broadcasters to celebrate the Semiquincentennial of the United States, in what it calling a “Pledge America” campaign. FCC chairman Brendan Carr announced the voluntary effort Friday, asking broadcasters to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary “by airing patriotic, pro-America content that celebrates the American journey and inspires its citizens by highlighting…
At the height of the toy domination of 1980s pop culture, Kenner introduced M.A.S.K., an action line featuring fast cars, powered masks, high-tech weapons and flashy spycraft. While not as ubiquitous as Transformers or G.I. Joe, the line nonetheless got a Saturday morning cartoon series, comics books and a video game. Now, after mostly surviving…
Universal Music Group and its Virgin Music Group subsidiary’s acquisition of Downtown Music has officially been completed, the companies announced Friday, about a week after EU competition authorities approved the deal last Friday. Downtown’s CEO Pieter van Rijn was appointed Chief Operating Officer following the deal, and he will report to Virgin’s co-CEOs Nat Pastor…
Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is known for hard-hitting, evocative dramas set in his native Chad, a country that was embroiled in sectarian conflict for decades. Movies like Dry Season, A Screaming Man (which won Cannes’ Jury Prize in 2011) and Grigris followed men in various states of turmoil, beset by violence and other hardships in the…
Something that went a tad undernoticed in Paramount‘s announcement that it had added sweeteners to its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery: Compliance with what’s known as a second request for information in the Justice Department’s probe into the hostile takeover bid. In normal circumstances, such compliance can take over a year. The scope of the…
The talk of Westwood this past week was a canceled lecture, set to be delivered by a New York media heavyweight. Bari Weiss, the Free Press founder and editor-in-chief of CBS News, was scheduled to deliver the Daniel Pearl Memorial lecture at UCLA‘s Burkle Center next week. The topic? The future of journalism. The reaction?…
[This story contains spoilers for The Wrecking Crew.] The Wrecking Crew filmmaker Angel Manuel Soto has entertained plenty of viewers on Amazon Prime over the past few weeks, as his new action comedy has routinely been among the streaming service’s most watched films since its launch on Jan. 28. Among the viewers of the Jason…
Michael Ireland — a widely regarded Hollywood studio production executive who departed Paramount last year — has found his new home. And the irony couldn’t be richer — if not a ready-made script. Warner Bros. announced to staff Thursday that Ireland has been named president of production at Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group alongside current…
Alicia Keys, Jody Gerson, Laura Segura and their nonprofit She Is The Music, which pushes to increase the number of women working in music, came together for their second annual Sharing the Spotlight event on Wednesday night. The Hollywood Reporter teamed up with the organization to honor music executive trailblazer Sylvia Rhone and country artist…
